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All of us here at Fred Wahl Marine Construction would like to thank Buck Laukitis and family for choosing us to build their new 58'x28' Fishing Vessel Oracle. IN THIS ISSUE Editor's note Wesley Loy ® Bittersweet THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR FISHERMEN INSIDE: Bristol Bay Bristol Bay is one of the greatest spectacles in commercial fishing anywhere in the world. Because the fishery is so big, the surprises can be big, too. And the disappointments. This season’s surprise was how the fishery, after a maddeningly slow start, finished with a late explosion. The final catch of nearly 36 million sockeye came close to meeting the huge preseason forecast. As for disappointment, it was the sorry price of fish. To many, the 50 cents Inside Sitka • Page 8 per pound paid by the major processors was an affront. The Deckboss blog crackled with bitterness and sarcasm over the news. Among the comments: What a terrible way to treat the fishermen. Next season, instead of kissing my first fish, I will throw it back. Better to let them spawn than give them up for a loss. Thank the scabs from years ago. Others offered different perspectives: Shipyard planning • Page 12 If 50 cents is so cheap, why don’t you start buying sockeye instead of selling sockeye? The fair price of anything is what a buyer is willing to pay. If you don’t like it, drive your fish to Seattle or fish somewhere other than the middle of nowhere with a limited market. Scabs from 20 years ago caused this? Dude, give it up, get over it. Relations, it seems, have never been great between Bristol Bay gillnetters Around the Yards • Page 26 and the companies that process and pack the fish. Both sides take serious financial risks to operate in the remote bay. The fishermen go to work and deliver the sockeye, not knowing what or whether they’ll be paid. The processors take shiploads of fish on the hope that they can sell it at a profit. Book excerpt Many fishermen believe Bristol Bay salmon is a premium product the true • Page 28 value of which simply never trickles down from the processors. With this year’s low price comes debate about what to do about it. In the past, we’ve seen the fleet try to organize fishing strikes against the proces- sors. Some say it’s high time for price negotiations between the fishermen and packers, perhaps with state involvement. Others stress the need for improv- ing Bristol Bay fish quality, or consolidating permits. Still others point to the ON THE COVER: Seiners in Sitka Channel at sunrise, example of Silver Bay Seafoods, a new processor in which fishermen them- March 2014. Photo by James Poulson, Daily Sitka selves are the owners. Sentinel In the coming months, some processors might pay fishermen bonuses based in part on the success of their sales efforts. One commenter on Deckboss allud- ed to this, writing: VOLUME XXXVI, NO. 9 • SEPTEMBER 2015 Pacific Fishing (ISSN 0195-6515) is published 12 times a year (monthly) by Pacific Let’s let the market settle out. If we don’t see major movements in price once the Fishing Magazine. Editorial, Circulation, and Advertising offices at 1028 Industry sales data comes in, that’s when we start talking scorched earth. Drive, Seattle, WA 98188, U.S.A. Telephone (206) 324-5644.  Subscriptions: One-year rate for U.S., $18.75, two-year $30.75, three-year $39.75; Canadian subscriptions paid in U.S. funds add $10 per year. Canadian subscriptions paid in We here at Pacific Fishing can’t really say what should be done about Canadian funds add $10 per year. Other foreign surface is $36 per year; foreign this year’s Bristol Bay price disappointment. I would suggest, however, that airmail is $84 per year.  The publisher of Pacific Fishing makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the relations between the two sectors could be greatly improved if processors information contained in Pacific Fishing.  Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, could somehow pull back the curtain on how they set prices and sell all those Washington. Postmaster: Send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1028 Industry Drive, Seattle, WA 98188. Copyright © 2015 by Pacific Fishing Magazine. Contents superb sockeye. may not be reproduced without permission. POST OFFICE: Please send address changes to Pacific Fishing, 1028 Industry Drive, Seattle, WA 98188

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Associate Publisher ter last month near Cordova. That brings the total Bristol Bay, including silvers, but buyers are CHRISTIE DAIGLE reward to $7,500. – alaskafisheries.noaa.gov becoming scarce. – kdlg.org [email protected] Bristol Bay busts out: After a slow start for Slow going: Pink salmon catches in Southeast

EDITORIAL CONTENT: the Bristol Bay sockeye fishery, the salmon Alaska remain below average. – kfsk.org Editor surge in and gillnetters land millions. Southern strategy: Trident Seafoods opens WESLEY LOY – deckboss.blogspot.com a new $40 million seafood processing and distri- [email protected] Ph: (206) 324-5644, ext. 234 Fraser River sockeye forecast: There is a 50 bution facility in Georgia. – times-georgian.com Field Editor percent probability of about 6.8 million fish 215 fine ideas: The Alaska Board of Fisheries MICHEL DROUIN returning, DFO says. – notices.dfo-mpo.gc.ca has released the proposal book for its upcoming Copy Editor BRIANNA MORGAN Still coming: The Bristol Bay sockeye salmon winter meeting cycle. Bristol Bay finfish is the catch reaches 23 million fish. – kdlg.org main event. – adfg.alaska.gov PRODUCTION OPERATIONS: Incumbent cash: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, up Alaska’s anti-setnet debate: With ballot measure Production Manager for re-election next year, reports raising nearly looming, Kenai salmon setnetters ponder their DAVID SALDANA [email protected] $1.1 million in the latest quarter. – adn.com future. – adn.com Art Director, Design & Layout Crabbing time: The Alaska Department of Fish Surplus salmon sale: The U.S. Department of ERIN DOWNWARD [email protected] and Game announces Aleutian Islands golden Agriculture plans to buy up to $30 million in king crab quotas and says the season will open canned Alaska sockeye, Sen. Lisa Murkowski says.

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Some of the fishers had trouble under- Salmon soon began to be salted and then canned for export. standing the new regulations and how to apply for the permits. The newcomers soon figured out how to catch larger numbers A fair number of local people who fished on the beach were in of salmon with traps and drifting nets. The local residents were, danger of being cut from the livelihood that had been with their for the most part, cut out of these high-volume market fisheries. family for generations. Fortunately, the state of Alaska real- However, the setnets still operated. They were mostly manned by ized this and granted extra time and more permits. Almost 200 the women and kids. additional permits were given to Alaska residents, the vast major- As time went on, Native folks gradually began to work their ity to people living in Bristol Bay. way back into the fishery. Fish traps disappeared, but the fleet The catch to the additional permits was that they were of drifting nets began to become more sophisticated. The local nontransferable. When the permit holder died, the permit disap- residents had an “in” with the salmon fishery. They lived in peared. This didn’t seem like a problem in the early 1980s. Today the Bristol Bay area and knew her waters. Salmon provided an it is becoming more than just an inconvenience; it threatens an indispensable source of income in an area that had almost no entire way of life. other employment for 10 months of the year. The setnetters in Western Alaska spend their summers on In the early 1970s, limited entry permits came along. Most the beach. They live in tents or in plywood shacks. The families of the locals were eligible for these permits based on their past spend all summer outdoors living and working on the beach. The participation in the fishery. Many applied for and received the kids learn how to catch fish, can fish, and cook fish. They take permits, which gradually became valuable over time, depending part in a subsistence lifestyle that is the very fabric of life in rural on the salmon runs and the price of fish. Alaska. The money made from the sale of fish is a necessary part Inevitably, some bad years followed. Outside fishermen, many of that lifestyle. of whom had regular jobs during the off-season, were able to There are approximately 170 nontransferable limited entry retain their permits. Locals, who had no such opportunity, needed setnet permits in existence today. The holders of these permits income to feed their families. Many area permits were sold during are aging. When these fishers pass, the permits and their income will be lost. The question then follows, how will these families support themselves in an When you actually live where you work, you care area with $8 per gallon fuel and $13 milk? even more about keeping your work space clean. There are other threats to the local Western Alaska setnet fishery. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources operates Delta Western has been living and working in a setnet site lease program. A person pays Alaska long enough to develop a local’s sense $300 a year to DNR to hold a lease on a set- of pride in the natural beauty that’s all around us. That’s why we’re committed to serving net site. Quite a number of the locals have you in a way that provides the highest level had their sets in the same location for many of environmental responsibility. It’s why our years. The locations were respected. Today, employees are so rigorously trained. And why our with the high volume of fish in the bay and facilities are regularly inspected and maintained. Living here has fueled our devotion to protecting good fish prices, some of these sites are our environment. And inspired us to care deeply getting squeezed by outsiders who have about Fueling Alaska Safely. been buying in. When there is a conflict, DNR is called in. “Too bad,” the guy without a lease is told. “You have fished here for 40 years and live in Igiugig, your new neighbor is in his second year and lives on Fourth and Broad- way in New York City. However, he has his lease and you don’t.” The lease is not required by either law or regulation. The right to fish on a specific location is, never- For all of your quality fuel needs, theless, upheld by only the DNR lease. call us toll-free at 800.478.2688 Another threat to the local way of life is looming on the horizon. This next election cycle could see an initiative on the ballot to ban setnetting from certain fisheries. Sportfish interests believe that setnets cut Continued on page 46

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An aerial view of Sitka looking southeast over Crescent Harbor and Eastern Channel. Photos by James Poulson, Daily Sitka Sentinel

he port of Sitka retains the ambiance of an old-time, cod fishery has also been cut, but both are still lucrative family, small-boat-fishery kind of place, but tucked fisheries. There is a smattering of dive boats and boats used to fish T in among the old timey stuff is plenty of 21st century for Dungeness crab. technology and marketing. Sitka’s five harbors make up the largest According to 2013 data from the National Marine Fisheries small-boat harbor system in Alaska, with a combined eight miles Service, Sitka ranks seventh in both poundage and value among of docks and more than 1,300 slips. More than half the slips Alaska ports. Nationally, Sitka ranked 16th for the millions of tons are occupied by commercial fishing boats – nearly all 58 feet landed and ninth in the value of the catch. and under. Sitka is best known for its salmon trollers and the glori- The right place ous kings and coho they catch. But it’s also been an important Ask anyone on the docks why Sitka is a popular home port and seine and longline port. In the last decade, a number of gillnett- they say “Location, location, and location.” Sitka is well-placed ers have taken up residence in Sitka, joining seiners in targeting to access the rich Gulf of Alaska outer coast fisheries. Its central chum returning to hatcheries in Sitka Sound. Halibut fishing is position halfway up the Panhandle puts it near Chatham Strait declining as quotas dwindle. The quota for the longline black hatcheries and black cod grounds.

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Sitka is best known for its fleet of salmon trollers, but plenty of seiners, longliners, and charter boats also tie up in the town.

“Like most of the Tlingit communi- than those in Juneau and Ketchikan, ties in Southeast Alaska, Sitka is where it despite those cities’ much larger popula- is because there are fish here,” said Tad tions. That’s why the cost of moorage in Fujioka, a civil engineer turned power Sitka is about equal to moorage in those troller. “They had a long time to figure out two larger Southeast towns, said Sitka’s which were the best places to catch fish.” harbormaster, Stan Eliason. Sitka’s harbors, Those Tlingits also knew how to pick repair grid, work floats, launching ramps, a safe harbor, said John Bahrt, who fish- hoists, cold storage, and other facilities es out of Sitka for halibut, black cod, are kept in good shape – their constant rockfish, and shrimp. Multiple members of upgrading financed by state and federal the Bahrt family have been fishermen since dollars, city funds, and money paid to they arrived in Sitka in 1847. Bahrt sat in Sitka through fish taxes. his father’s wheelhouse at age 6. His 30-ish The Coast Guard Air Station Sitka is kids are fishing today. ready to aid and rescue people on both “When the Tlingits decided this is land and sea. There are two hospitals the place to be, they had 1,000 years of in Sitka. Sitka enjoys daily jet service experience,” Bahrt said. The waters off 12 months of the year. In summer, a Sitka are dotted with protective islands. southbound plane may be heavy with Mountains shroud the port from easterly commercial products and big boxes of winds. The rugged coastline provides sport-caught fish. numerous anchorages and hidey holes. Most kinds of marine-related services “When it’s windy and nasty (other Gulf are available in Sitka, usually located away of Alaska ports) can be horrendous,” said from the waterfront. Options for services Bahrt. “And Sitka is just a haven. We won’t in welding and fabrication, electronics, even feel the southeast wind. We don’t feel heating and refrigeration, and fueling are anything unless it blows from the west.” compiled in a list maintained by the Sitka The Tlingits’ uncontested control of Economic Development Association and what they named “Sheet’ka” changed in available at www.sitkamarine.com. There the 1800s with the arrival of Europeans – is a deepwater dock and a boat haulout Russians – lusting after sea otter fur. By and repair yard. mid-century, “Novo Archangelsk” was the But Fujioka said the services in Sitka are most developed colonial settlement on the not numerous and long waits are common. U.S. West Coast. Passing whalers called “Services are much more limited than Sitka “the Paris of the Pacific” – an island you would expect, considering the size of of European culture and technology. It was the fleet here,” he said. “There could be a key provisioning and repair stop in the more skilled workers.” triangle trade between other West Coast Two long-time processors operate on ports, Hawaii, and the Far East. the downtown waterfront. Sitka Sound Seafoods is a private firm with more Good facilities, skilled than 50 years in Sitka. Seafood Producers workers needed Cooperative is an association of fishermen While the town has only about 9,000 who gain a premium by marketing their residents, the Sitka harbor system is bigger own fish. At Gary Paxton Industrial Park, Continued on page 10

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Jovencio Molina pushes herring inside the Seine boats rafting at Sitka’s Alaska Native Seiners at Sitka’s Crescent Harbor. processing plant at Sitka Sound Seafoods. Brotherhood Harbor. The company is one of two processors operating on the downtown waterfront. restaurants, and hotels. are frustrated because reductions made in But herring fishermen have butted the commercial king salmon quota are not about seven miles from town, Silver Bay heads with subsistence gatherers of matched by the charter fleet. Seafoods has been processing pinks and herring eggs, who say the sac roe fishery While the commercial king fishery is chums for seiners, many of them from has negatively affected their traditional chopped up into brief openings, “The points north and south. harvest. Some prime areas have been charter boats fish seven days a week,” In early spring each year since the reserved for subsistence harvests, but a Pasternak bristled. “Many of the trollers 1970s, seine boats from Petersburg and previous policy of allowing the Sitka Tribe can’t understand why chartering is not elsewhere join some Sitka permit hold- of Alaska to participate in managing the considered a commercial fishery.” ers for the sac roe herring fishery. This fishery has lapsed. multimillion-dollar fishery – for “kazuno- The docks can also be tense because of Fishy festivals ko,” or filled egg sacs – is limited to about an uncomfortable relationship between Commercial fishermen enjoy wide 50 boats. Another 100 boats may play some commercial fishermen and the char- support in Sitka – even from environmental support roles. The fishery is a bonan- ter boat industry. Sitka troller and longliner groups. Owning at least one pair of Xtratuf za for the Sitka marine supply stores, Walt Pasternak said commercial fishermen boots is practically a requirement. Each year, locals celebrate the end of the tourist season with the Running of the Boots. It’s an event where runners don costumes – think Xtratufs and a fish head – for prizes, glory, and free grilled salmon. The Sitka Seafood Festival, held in August, lures top Northwest chefs to town for an elaborate dinner, cooked with local fish. If that’s the sacred, the profane is the “bobbing for fish heads” contest which, just like it sounds, involves sticking one’s head into a tote filled with fish heads and grabbing a fish with one’s teeth. The celebration around Alaska Day, which falls on Oct. 18, is Sitka’s biggest event of the year. Sitka is the former capi- tal of Russian-America. At their height, the Russians controlled an area that stretched from northern California to the Aleutian Islands. When the United States bought Alaska for $7.2 million in 1867, the Russian Imperial flag was lowered and the Stars and Stripes raised in its place atop Castle Hill in downtown Sitka. Today, Castle Hill provides one of the best views of Sitka’s busy harbors and channels. History has always been made in Sitka. It still is, every day, on the docks.  Will Swagel is a freelance writer in Sitka.

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1981-2012 Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Groundfish Catch Limits Marine conservation isn’t new to Alaska Seafood. In fact, a precautionary approach to setting harvest levels has been in place for decades. Look at the BSAI Catch Limits chart and see how the numbers tell the story. Each year scientists conduct surveys of the available biomass and use this data to calculate conservative catch limits – Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC). Then, fisheries managers go a step further and set harvest quotas – Total Allowable Catch (TAC) – that never exceeds the sustainable ABC. And, with the FAO-Based Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) Certification, you have even more assurance that conserving our oceans is anything but trendy to us. Learn more at www.alaskaseafood.org SCIENCE by NED ROZELL Excavating St. Matthew, Alaska’s most remote island One of the quietest places in Alaska was temporarily home to a few hardy people when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. An archaeologist has fleshed out what life might have been like during a winter on St. Matthew Island in the 1600s. In some ways, St. Matthew, more than 200 miles from the nearest Alaska settlement (the village of Mekoryuk), is a great place to live: lush with plant life (some of it edible); miles of coastline offering access to seabirds, their eggs, walrus, seals, and fish; ample fresh water in lakes and streams. In other ways, Alaska’s most remote island is a grim outpost. Alone, treeless, and exposed in the Bering Sea, St. Matthew becomes surrounded by sea ice in December and remains locked in its frozen grip until April. Cold winds blast the island all months of the year. Because of dampness and thick fog, “summer is not really noticeable,” a Russian writer once wrote. Dennis Griffin has visited St. Matthew twice. The archaeolo- gist with Oregon’s State Historic Preservation Office was last there in 2012 with a party of biologists hosted by the crew of the Tiglax, the 120-foot ship of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. While there, he dug a pit to examine one of the few weathered signs of human occupation on St. Matthew. Called “the Pottery House,” the site that dates to the 1600s is on In August 2012, Dennis Griffin examines “the Pottery House” on a green hillside with a view of neighboring Hall Island, three and Alaska’s remote St. Matthew Island. Ned Rozell photo a half miles away. Today, someone’s former home is a slumped

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 23 MANAGEMENT Six myths of ecosystem-based fisheries management Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) became a management in relation to marine fisheries. The three levels differ major initiative of resource managers around the world begin- by their key focus: ning in the 1990s. Unlike traditional management approaches • Ecosystem approaches to fisheries management (EAFM) that focused solely on the biology of a particular stock, EBFM focus on a single fisheries stock and include other factors that can provides a more holistic approach to fisheries management – one influence a stock. that takes into account the complex suite of biological, physical, • Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) focuses on economic, and social factors associated with managing living the fisheries sector (multiple fisheries). marine resources. • Ecosystem-based management (EBM) focuses on multiple EBFM has continued to evolve over the past 20 years and is sectors, such as fisheries, ecotourism, and oil and gas exploration. now a cornerstone of NOAA Fisheries’ efforts to sustainably man- age the nation’s marine resources. MYTH 2: There’s no clear mandate for EBFM. But despite substantial progress in the science behind and For the past 20 years, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery application of EBFM, a perception remains that the science and Conservation and Management Act, combined with more than governance structures to implement EBFM are lacking, when in 90 separate federal legislative mandates, either implicitly or fact they have already been resolved in the United States and oth- explicitly have given NOAA authority to implement an ecosys- er developed countries. tem-based approach to management. NOAA Fisheries specifically An April article in the journal Fisheries (the paper is available has been fully engaged during this period to implement EBFM, for free at tinyurl.com/o3qeffw) took on the important challenge in order to more efficiently and effectively fulfill its key man- of identifying some of the most common myths that can impede date – stewardship of the nation’s living marine resources and the implementation of EBFM. Here’s a look at some of them. their habitats, interactions, and ecosystems. Rather than waiting for the perfect mandate to move forward with EBFM, managers, MYTH 1: Marine ecosystem-based management lacks universal scientists, and policymakers can and should move forward within terminology, making it difficult to implement. current authorities. The scientific literature provides clear and consistent defini- tions of marine ecosystem-based management and associated MYTH 3: EBFM requires extensive data and complicated models. terminology. There are three primary levels of ecosystem-based A common misconception is that EBFM requires comprehen- sive data and complex models, and can only be applied in exceptional, data-rich circumstances. The reality is that EBFM begins with what is known about the eco- MATE Pumps: system. It provides a framework to use all available knowledge, whether it’s a · Designed and built in Italy detailed time series of species abundance Higher flow rates combined with or more descriptive local knowledge of · the ecosystem. When data are limited, smaller footprints than approaches such as risk, portfolio, or loop competitors’ pumps analysis can be applied to work with avail- · Motors are all rated at able information. These techniques provide a minimum 2000 hour managers with a tool to assess whether a brush life fish population or the ecosystem is likely to reach a tipping point. · Most MATE pumps use The key point here is that EBFM allows PTFE or bronze gears – managers to work with the information no impellers to worry about available to best manage the resources in · MATE offers variable-speed fresh water an ecosystem, aware of all the parts of the pumps, full engine oil change systems, system simultaneously. washdown pumps, reversing pumps with integrated switches for fuel and engine oil transfers, 110V and 220V transfer pumps, bilge MYTH 4: EBFM results will always be conservative and restrictive. and saltwater pumps, and more Now available at There is an existing perception that applying EBFM will always result in a more precautionary approach to man- agement and reduced catch limits. The rationale is that accounting for more uncertainty as well as focusing on con- www.lfsmarineoutdoor.com • 800-426-8860 serving protected or non-target species

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MYTH 5: EBFM is a naïve attempt to describe a complex system. Proponents see EBFM as a solution, whereas critics see it as an approach that falls short of addressing the many socio- economic, political, and other challenges inherent in marine resource management. Scientific agencies worldwide have tradi- tionally given fishery management advice on a stock-by-stock basis rather than con- sider multiple fisheries and multiple user groups. But ignoring the trade-offs, or the existence of multiple objectives, does not make them go away. Different stakehold- ers often have competing interests, and it is important to acknowledge these differ- ences and identify management options that optimize the full range of inter- If you can swim the ests. Strategies can often meet multiple objectives, such that no one stock, fishery, sector, economy, or community is unknowingly depleted at the expense Bering Sea, you’re a of another. Ultimately, EBFM is about trade-off analysis – examining which options meet the most objectives as a collective system. better man than me. MYTH 6: There aren’t enough resources to do EBFM. AND YOU AREN’T. A final myth is that it will take sub- stantially more resources – more fund- ing, staff, data, and sophisticated models -Angus Iversen – to implement EBFM. But EBFM imple- mentation actually has the potential to increase efficiencies. Many national and international working groups currently Today’s low-profi le PFDs are comfortable and exist to support single-species manage- extend survival time in the coldest of water. ment efforts. A transition to EBFM allows multiple species to be addressed through Choose yours at livetobesalty.org. Then make a more integrated assessment process, it part of your standard on-deck gear. thus requiring fewer working groups. This has the potential to reduce staff work- loads and consolidate modeling efforts. Mention of any company or product does not constitute endorsement by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

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The 50-foot Galactic Ice is a reefnet tender newly launched from Mavrik Marine. Alan Haig-Brown photo New reefnet tender Galactic Ice highlights shipyard summer La Conner: Newly launched from Mavrik Marine is the reefnet     tender Galactic Ice. Seattle: The Bering Sea crabber Cornelia Marie was repowered at The vessel is nearly 50 feet long and 24 feet wide. It was designed Northlake Shipyard in Seattle earlier this year. collaboratively by Keith Carpenter, Dave Hansen, and Ian Kirouac, The owners took out two old Mitsubishi main engines, and the of Lummi Island Wild, and Mavrik’s Zachary Battle. Jensen old gears as well, and put in two electronically controlled Cummins Maritime did the final engineering and hydrostatics on the vessel. QSK19 engines (750 horsepower at 1,800 rpm, Tier 3) as well as two The bow has a raised forecastle with bunks and head. A low waist Twin Disc MG-5222 gears. deck extends aft to a poop deck that rises about 3 feet to provide For salmon tendering, the Cornelia Marie can pack 630,000 a good engine room space. An open area over the poop deck has pounds in refrigerated seawater. For crabs, which are carried live in pillars on either side, with a head in one and engine room access in circulating seawater, she packs up to 315,000 pounds. the other. The raised wheelhouse, extending nearly the full width of Choosing not to cut the liners and insulation in the holds, the boat, includes a basic galley, mess table, and two more bunks in owners Roger Thomas and Kari Toivola chose to replace the two in- addition to GPS, electronic charts, radar, and other navigation and line, six-cylinder engines through a hole cut in the front of the house. system controls. The main accommodation area, including the mess and galley, was The Galactic Ice can hold two layers of 37 insulated totes on gutted. The concrete floor and the steel under it were taken up. the waist deck with a total capacity of 130,000 pounds. Skiffs will Thomas oversaw the engine replacement. The original 56-inch transfer the fish from the reefnet platforms, where they have been props were re-pitched and the shafts were pulled and machined. live-bled for quality, to the tender. On the port side the whole Ten weeks after arriving in Seattle, the Cornelia Marie was bulwark lowers hydraulically to allow skiffs to offload from their headed back north with new mains, two new gensets, new galley level. On the starboard side an aluminum boom can extend out for and accommodations, 50 percent of the steel under the new wood mooring skiffs. A crane is mounted midship to lift totes. deck replaced, and a multitude of minor projects completed. A pair of six-cylinder Cummins QSL9 marine diesels delivering     410 horsepower each at 2,100 rpm provides propulsion. The engines Port Townsend: Do-it-yourselfer Jason Roberts from Neah Bay are set well aft to provide more cargo space forward. had his 75-foot trawler, the Angela Carol, hauled out in the Port of “Building the F/V Galactic Ice was a great collaboration from Port Townsend shipyard. Roberts targets true cod, petrale sole, and the start – from the interaction with the clients to the integration Dover sole with the vessel. and collaboration with Jensen,” Battle said. “It’s been a lot of fun “It’s one of the few yards that lets you do the work yourself,” understanding the goals and objectives of all the partners at Lummi Roberts said. “I hauled out on budget, so I had to be frugal about my Island Wild and then putting those ideas into the design, which was spending and get creative on how I could get the job done.” ultimately realized with the creation of the Galactic Ice.” The main intention was to paint the bottom and put zincs on, do

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This is insane! A teen experiences pain and wonder aboard a hard-working halibut boat

Kate Thompson

Editor’s note: Here’s an excerpt from the young adult novel “Fast Hands” (190 pages, Epicenter Press, $12.95). The author, John Pappenheimer, fished for halibut and salmon out of Ketchikan in the 1970s. He went on to found and publish, for over 20 years, the Alaska Fisherman’s Journal. The inspiration for “Fast Hands” came from stories he heard around galley tables. He now lives with his wife, landlocked in the farming town of Hadley, Mass.

n day three, after four hours of the ladder. sleep, Arnie shook me awake. The There was a fresh breeze, and the boat O way I was feeling, they’d have to was plunging. I went to the rail to pee use dynamite to get me up. But they didn’t. just as a wave rolled smack against the They just left me alone. Pretty soon I heard boat. It was like somebody had thrown a them up on deck. If they weren’t going to giant bucket of water at my waist. “Shit!” miss me, I might as well sleep for anoth- I yelled, stepping back from the rail. After er three hours. But the lousy thing was I I’d done cursing I noticed that both Arnie couldn’t. Pulling on my damp jeans and and Uncle Sven thought it was funny. shirt, I nearly keeled over from the sickly, Course, they didn’t look up from what sweet smell of BO and fish guts. They’d left they were doing, but they had these big me a plate of eggs, bacon and hash browns shit-eating grins on their faces. Screw with a basket of biscuits covered by a them. I went down below to change into dishtowel. I poured myself some cof- dry clothes. When I came back on deck, I fee. But in the end I only took a couple of was three coils behind. I was still behind swallows of coffee and a couple of when my uncle took us to the next string bites of egg. Then I put my plate in the and it was my turn to ice fish. sink, grabbed a biscuit and headed up The first halibut Arnie passed down

28 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM through the small hatch weighed as much I did. I took its tail with no more than three tiny breaks for meals. Did my and aimed it at the port bin, as Arnie had shown me. Then I mom know what kind of nut cakes these guys were? It was braced myself so that when he let go, it would slide down my like in Alice in Wonderland, where everybody turns out to back and over the top of the pen-boards. be crazy. In THAT direction, the Cheshire Cat says, lives “Ready?” Arnie yelled. a Hatter: and in THAT direction…lives a March Hare. Visit “Okay,” I said. either you like: they’re both mad... It’s pretty scary to be on a boat The boat plunged and rolled. The tail curled down against out in the middle of nowhere and everybody around you is the pen board, and the whole halibut came down on me. When seriously demented. I got back up, there was no way I could get that fish I poured myself a half-mug of coffee and stared high enough to go where it was supposed to go. angrily at it. It was the color of their Copenhagen I’d get it up onto my knee and the tail just over the spit and tasted just as bad. The boat was plunging top pen board, then the boat would roll the wrong and rolling, so it was hard to drink without getting way and the fish would come slithering down on a face full. Why was I trying to drink it, anyway? I me again. I was getting really pissed off. I started gave up, folded my arms and stared at the floor. The yelling, “You son of a bitch,” even though it wasn’t the engine was suddenly brought down to an idle. They halibut’s fault. must be approaching the next set. I expected my uncle What was wrong with those jerks on deck? would come down to see what was going on. But they They could hear me yelling, I’m sure of that, but couldn’t force me to work.What could they do to me? they didn’t come down to help. Finally I just They could keelhaul you, that’s what Dougy would left the halibut in the center of the hold and climbed up probably say. He was good at thinking up the worst the ladder. Arnie had another huge halibut on the hatch possible thing that could happen. The captain of an ocean liner cover ready to send down to flatten me. I walked right by him can clap you in irons or flog you at the mast. I could hear Dougy and behind Rudi, who was coiling, and went down into the offering his two cents in a cheerful voice. Why would it be fo’c’sle saying loudly “I quit! This is insane!” different on a fishing boat? I didn’t know what I was going to do on that boat for No one came down the ladder. They were obviously hauling nine more days. Maybe they’d take me back to Ketchikan. without me. I considered cleaning the dishes, but that would Maybe they’d put me ashore somewhere like they used to be breaking the strike, wouldn’t it? No, I’d go back to sleep like maroon pirates. They’d get into trouble if they did. May- a normal human being. But I knew that I wouldn’t be able to be I’d go to the police in Ketchikan; there might be some sleep. I’d just lie there feeling guilty. kind of labor law against working twenty hours a day Continued on page 30

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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 29 BOOKSHELF Fast Hands It was dawning on me that hanging around in the fo’c’sle the pages. We never found one. The truth was there was no one in with nothing to do might be worse than wrestling with the magazine half as pretty as Claire. halibut in the fish hold. I could read. I found the book Typhoon **** and stared at the first page while my mind churned through a Uncle Sven came down the ladder and sat down next to me. zillion what ifs. What if my mom had never met Roy? What if Ms. I ignored him. My mind was racing with possible putdowns in Zorro had missed the No. 17 bus? Then I wouldn’t be trapped case he tried to change my mind. I expected him to ask what the right now on a boat with a bunch of Norwegians who think hell was the matter with me. And I was prepared to answer back, working 19 hours a day is normal? what’s the matter with me? What’s the matter with you and those What if? What if? You can drive yourself crazy with what ifs. two Norwegians? You’re all a bunch of Clint Eastwoods. But I’m It’s probably something you do in a prison cell after you’ve been not. I’m just a normal kid … I should report you to the Society for sentenced to life – what if you’d just stayed home watching TV the Prevention of Cruelty to Teenagers. instead of robbing that bank? But my uncle didn’t say anything for the longest time. Then he I didn’t even get to kiss Ms. Zorro, even after she’d found the said, “You look like your grandpa.” liquor cabinet and we’d polished off half a bottle of whiskey. You “Yeah, but I’m not like him, am I? What was he, some kind of know how in the movies you see the boy and girl pulled together silent, masochistic Viking?” by some kind of inter-lip gravity. We were a couple of microns “No,” my uncle said, like he was taking my stupid reply away from a kiss when a beam of light swept the cabin and a seriously. “No, he had a hard life. He learned early a lot of things voice from the dock said, “This is the police. Can we talk to you?” maybe you haven’t learned yet.” “Friends of yours?” I couldn’t believe she thought it was a joke. “Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you!” I said angrily. “But I’m Even after we were handcuffed and in the patrol car, she didn’t not some kind of super-Norwegian who can go for twenty hours seem to realize that we were in big trouble. without sleep when my hands feel like they’ve been through a “I’ve never been arrested before.” She sounded excited and not meat grinder and, even if I wanted to, I probably couldn’t stand that frightened. She was still wearing the slinky evening gown up on deck for another twenty minutes.” she’d slipped over her regular clothes and the Greek fisherman’s “Do you think you’re the only one who’s in pain?” my uncle hat she’d found in the yacht’s pilothouse. asked. He didn’t make it sound like an accusation. He sounded I tried to picture Ms. Zorro of the heavy eye shadow, but genuinely curious. IW couldn’t.inofter 2012 It was marine PFR Claire – s1a fIe saw,ty andlooking suat rmeviv alwith tWraining.e her ar eeyes “Jeeeez,tpo r oud I’mhelp not a frigging adult. You guys are used to it. You brimming with amusement. She’d picked up a copy of Seven- guys don’t have any idea what it’s like to be a kid on this boat.” teen thatof someone on-the-job had left on a seataccide in then ferry.ts “Let’s and find youinjuries, a “No, I guess and we don’thelp know themwhat it’s clikeome to be a kid. I don’t girlfriend,”home she sa fhade to said, sitting the next to people meca rande wholeafing aboutthrough them.think we ever knew.” I hadn’t expected Uncle Sven to sound so quiet and sad. I was still angry but I was starting to think maybe I had things wrong. 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30 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM BOOKSHELF Reference by RICH PRESS ‘A Handy Field Guide to the Nearshore Marine Fishes of Alaska’ Most people can recognize themselves in a childhood photo. their survival.” But if fish took pictures, many would be unable to pick their A monumental effort: For many of these species, taxonomic younger selves out of a lineup. In many species, the juveniles bear photos of juveniles were rare or nonexistent before the years-long little resemblance to the adults, and even scientists can have a effort by Lindeberg and her colleagues to collect the fish and pho- tough time telling them apart. tograph them. “Take halibut,” said Mandy Lindeberg. “It’s To do that, they sampled the shoreline at low a pretty important commercial species, but few tide with a beach seine, including hundreds of people have seen them when they’re 10 millime- locations ranging from Southeast Alaska, Prince ters long.” William Sound, Cook Inlet, the Bering Sea, and Lindeberg is a taxonomist with NOAA’s the Arctic. Alaska Fisheries Science Center, and she, along The habitats they sampled included eel- with colleagues Scott Johnson and Darcie Neff, grass beds, kelp beds, gravel beaches, recently came up with a solution to this recog- and sandy shores. This effort also pro- nition problem: “A Handy Field Guide to the duced The Nearshore Fish Atlas, an online Nearshore Marine Fishes of Alaska.” database showing which species depend The guide includes taxonomic photos of more on which habitats during their various than 100 species of fish in their juvenile phases, life stages. including the conventional, the cute, and the So which of these fishes is Lindeberg’s totally bizarre. favorite? The photos will help scientists accurately “I love the double-uglies,” she said, using identify juvenile fish in the field and understand local slang for a group of bizarre-looking fish which species use which habitats as their nurs- called sculpins, which have evolved to fill some ery grounds – the places where they find food and seek refuge unexpected niches. “And the lumpsuckers are just the cutest from predators during the most vulnerable stage of their lives. things on the planet.” “If we want to take an ecosystem approach to managing these Download the field guide for free at tinyurl.com/q2cqdjf.  fisheries,” Lindeberg said, “we need to know more about all the life stages of these fish and the habitats that are critical to Rich Press is a NOAA Fisheries science writer. felt anything quite like it before. When Rudi came back up the and climax forests while behind his back everybody was talking ladder, I said, “Hey, I can go out on deck if you want to take over and paying no attention. I’d remember the jaeger’s aerobatics the steering.” Rudi didn’t reply, but he did take the wheel and long after anything I might have learned in Mr. Bordlum’s biol- look at the compass course. “It’s 272 degrees. My uncle said to let ogy class had flown out the window. him know when it was 8:45.” Nobody in the class would be able to imagine what it was like On deck Arnie was passing halibut down through the small to stand here, on the fringe of the world, watching the aerobatics hatch to my uncle. “I can go down there,” I said. of seabirds. I was in another world. Dougy always talked about Arnie didn’t look up, but he nodded towards the bait shack. escaping to another galaxy. This was so far from anything we’d “There are a couple of skates that haven’t been baited yet.” ever known, it almost qualified. It was beautiful. I found myself trying to bait as fast and carefully as I could. At some point I realized time was no longer ticking in nanosec- I’d almost finished a skate when my uncle joined Arnie and me. onds and dusk was falling on us already. That night I thanked my By the time we were finished, the engine was down to an idle lucky stars that I was eating dinner along with the rest of them and Rudi was bringing us up on the next set. The sun was out. It instead of sulking in my bunk, bored out of my mind and not sparkled on the water. having a clue what to do next.  The three of them acted like nothing had happened. It’s like they weren’t going to notice that I’d just acted like a total doofus. Maybe they knew more about kids than they let on. I pushed myself and got a little ahead with the baiting. I watched a jaeger pursu- ing a seagull. It was like watching an aerial dogfight in an old World War I movie. That jaeger could really fly. It was right on the seagull’s tail, matching move for move, only faster, and the seagull gave up, drop- ping the piece of herring. The jaeger caught it before it reached the water. If I’d been in school, I’d have missed this amazing display. At that moment, Mr. Bordlum was probably droning on and on to the blackboard about cambium layers

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 31 SOUTHERN CLIMES by DANIEL MINTZ An ‘existential crisis’ over California salmon Drought worries: When the director of the California these species are some of the most resilient on Department of Fish and Wildlife gets philosophical about the fate the planet.” of salmon, you know there’s trouble afoot. John McManus of the Golden Gate Salmon Chuck Bonham, the man who holds that title, was one of sev- Association displayed a photo of a dried-up eral presenters at an early July statehouse hearing who warned of creek in the upper Sacramento watershed. He severe salmon fishery impacts due to drought. The situation is dire said juvenile salmon faced parched conditions “all over California, enough to evoke the possibility of near-future salmon fishery clo- not only in the Central Valley but out on the coast as well.” sures and some deep pondering about the nature of life and death. Commercial salmon seasons were shut down in 2008 and 2009 “Working in this fourth year of drought, I don’t think it’s a dra- and Tim Sloan, the incoming executive director of the Pacific matization to say that I feel there’s an existential crisis,” Bonham Coast Federation of Fishing Associations, said that the state is told the state legislators on the Joint Committee on Aquaculture “looking down the barrel of another complete closure of the ocean and Fisheries. “This experience has me searching for the meaning salmon fishery.” of life, literally.”     It has also forced “a huge amount of introspection about Eyes on El Niño: This year is also alarmingly dry. Southern mortality” among the department’s staff, Bonham continued. California was soaked with a short-lived deluge of hurricane- What’s being confronted is the potentially morbid outcome of a induced rain through the weekend of July 18, but conditions in the very bad water year in 2014. Central Valley remained dry. Elevated water temperatures are believed to have destroyed 95 An Associated Press news report detailed the findings of a percent of the eggs of the Sacramento River’s endangered winter survey by the Wild Fish Conservancy group, which found that run Chinook salmon. The loss is believed to have been as severe rivers in California as well as in Oregon and Washington are run- with the fall run Chinook, the fishing industry’s main stock. ning slow and warm due to minimal snowpack. Bonham said his department is in “all hands on deck” status in So goes a fourth year of drought as anxiety over its mount- an effort to utilize hatcheries to supplant entire runs of salmon. ing impacts continues to intensify. But not all scenarios are The effect of drought – and the water diversions that compound doom-based. it – will be seen as salmon that were juveniles when dry conditions Federal meteorologists have identified a strengthening El peaked come back from the ocean. Niño event in the central area of the Pacific Ocean and forecast a “I think we’re looking at a potential commercial fishery disas- greater than 90 percent chance of it continuing through the winter, ter scenario a couple of years from now,” said Bonham. But he into spring. suggested that recovery is viable, saying, “By the same token, With El Niño comes the potential for above-average rainfall, and the weather pundits say the event we’re now seeing could develop into one that will be mightier than the record-breaker of 1997. But there’s also conjecture focused on the warm water area off the West Coast that’s being nicknamed “the blob.” Accompa- nied by high pressure, the blob is warding off rainfall that would usually be shore-bound, and it could offset El Niño effects. Another caveat is that true drought relief would have to come in the form of snowfall over the Sierras to replenish nearly non- existent snowpack. And if an El Niño brings an onslaught of ULTRA CROSS rain, landslides will dump huge loads of sediment into rivers ULTRA CROSS and streams. SILVER A lot is riding on what happens with the weather this winter. • Simply the strongest     netting made by mankind Slow salmon season: There was enthusiasm about the current • Legendary for fuel savings salmon season, as ocean population forecasts were fairly positive and fishing time was expanded in the Fort Bragg and San Francisco ULTRA CROSS Bay areas. HTPE Enter the blob, which is believed to have thrown salmon off their • The world’s toughest and normal travel patterns. Fishing has been spotty at best, and in the most stable knotless net state’s northern area, fishermen who have big enough boats and Knotless Netting blast freezers have switched their efforts to albacore tuna. As of press time, Department of Fish and Wildlife landing Setting the standard statistics were logged through the end of June, showing a total haul for excellence of 75,500 Chinook salmon, primarily at ports in Fort Bragg, San Francisco, and Monterey. The department’s biologists and reports from fishermen anec- he world s sTrongesT dotally describe July as a slow month for fishing. Surprisingly, T ’ Fort Bragg has been a leading port, its landings exceeding fore- neTTing for 24 years cast, while San Francisco has fallen far short of projected landings. In all, it’s shaping up to be a lackluster season. www.net-sys.com • Tel: (206) 842-5623 • Fax: (206) 842-6832 7910 N.E. Day Road West, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 USA Daniel Mintz has reported on Humboldt County’s government and natu- ral resources industries for more than a decade.

32 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM FISH FACTOR by LAINE WELCH Could your fishing boat run on batteries? Emerging technology: The first seagoing, electrical-powered have required that they do installations and passenger vessel in the United States is set to launch next summer maintenance on the first boats being built. in Juneau. But I know they are working very hard to The E/V Tongass Rain is a 50-foot, 47-passenger catamaran get the system to where people can maintain designed for eco-education and whale-watching tours. Its it on their own.” primary fuel source will be rain, delivered to the boat via Juneau’s The biggest drawback now is battery hydroelectric power grid and stored in a bank of lithium batteries. price. The Tongass Rain, for example, will use 10 5-kilowatt bat- The more modern batteries are less than half the weight of a teries at $5,000 each. traditional lead acid battery, and they provide three times the As with any new technology, O’Brien said, prices will drop fast power and charge three times as fast, said Bob Varness, president with wider use. And O’Brien and Varness are confident that will and manager of Tongass Rain Electric Cruise (TREC). happen. To make believers out of the fishing fleets, both agreed it The hull of the craft, designed by Jutson Marine in Vancouver, will take what they call a “soft handoff.” has been certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for 150 nautical “We need to build a vessel and learn from it and chal- miles “for safe harbor” in 6½-foot seas at 12 knots. Once the lenge it and fine-tune it until it is right. And then do propulsion system gets the green light, Varness said, building will mass production or conversions of that type of systems,” be underway. Varness said. “No noise, no emissions … and the system only has one “That’s why I’m excited about this project,” O’Brien said. “No moving part, so you don’t have exhaust systems to deal with, one has done this yet, and we are willing to be the guinea pig and turbo chargers or cooling systems or injection pumps. Every make it happen. We’re one of the frontrunners, and we want to 50,000 hours the battery manufacturer recommends pulling the prove it works because we think it is the future.” motor out, putting new bearings and seals on either end, and they     send you the same one back,” he said. Antibiotics rebellion: More U.S. food retailers are getting the Varness, who also is an independent Torqeedo electric marine message that Americans want to know what they are eating. motor dealer, said some alternative power sources are being And it’s clear that consumers don’t want their foods tainted with used by U.S. mariners on a small scale, but not in commercial hormones and antibiotics. fishing. His small troller runs up to 130 miles on a single charge That’s prompted Costco to turn away from farmed salmon from and recharges for $1.25, and he believes electro-power also would Chile – the world’s second-largest producer – due to its record use be a good fit for such vessels as salmon drift gillnetters and jig of antibiotics to kill deadly bacteria in its net pens. According to and pot boats. a Reuters report, Chile used 1.2 million pounds of antibiotics last “If you know where you’re going every day and it’s pretty year on production of nearly 900,000 tons of salmon, a 25 percent much a routine, and if it’s not high speed, this technology is increase from 2013. something that people really need to look at. All the products are Costco, the No. 3 U.S. retailer, routinely bought 90 percent of off the shelf and available for purchase today,” he said. the 600,000 pounds of salmon fillets it sells each week from Chile, The products might be at hand, but the expertise to do electro- accounting for nearly 9 percent of Chilean exports to the United power conversions for fishing boats is not. States. Costco now will buy 60 percent of its salmon from Norway “It’s so new, no one is even sure how to do it,” Varness said. and 40 percent from Chile. 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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 33 BRITISH COLUMBIA by MICHEL DROUIN Gillnetting with John in Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet Let’s go fishing: I was flattered when my friend John Stevens First set: We were up well before the 6 asked me to go fishing with him in the Barkley Sound sockeye a.m. opening and set the net at the crack of gillnet fishery for the 24-hour opening July 7-8. 6. We fished in that location throughout the The Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet fishery targets sockeye morning and into the afternoon. Fishing was bound for Sproat Lake and Great Central Lake on Vancouver Island. spotty, but steady enough not to run away With an estimated run size of 1.4 million fish, there was plenty of from fish. fish available for commercial, sport, and aboriginal fisheries. John had some grief with a bilge pump switch that wouldn’t turn John had already taken part in the fishery since it opened in June. off, so he had to root around in the bilge and operate on the thing After good fishing the week before without help on deck, he felt he in cramped conditions. He finally got it sorted and we kept fishing. needed a hand. We met up Monday, July 6. We caught the ferry over to Vancouver Island and drove to Port Alberni at the head of Alberni Inlet. Buying a minimal supply of grub for the 24-hour opening, we boarded the 37-foot gillnetter Ganhada, owned by our mutual friend Ann Prendergast in Sointula, and headed up the inlet. Much of the inside of the inlet is open for gillnetters, but John prefers to fish farther out towards the entrance, so we had a bit of a run. We stopped at San Mateo Bay to pick up some ice from Lee Anderson and his crew on the Pacific Baron. It’s always fun to run into Lee. Even though he lives on Vancou- ver Island and I live in Vancouver, we normally only see each other once a year at Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle. When not tendering salmon he fishes halibut on the Pacific Baron. We’ve know each other since high school, so a visit is always a good opportunity to catch up on old friends and memories. We motored out between some islands near where John prefers to fish and anchored up for the night, eating our hastily prepared Gillnetter John Stevens makes a set for sockeye in Barkley Sound. spaghetti dinner on the way with some fresh salad I brought from Michel Drouin photo my wife’s garden. In the late afternoon when fishing dropped off, John ran into the inlet proper for a dark set. With private customers waiting, John likes to process some fish Marine Safety Services – on board for the home market. So in between sets we didn’t have much time for breaks, as we were busy dressing fish and putting Alaska Marine Safety them on ice. Seattle, Washington – Dutch Harbor, Alaska The dark set was pretty decent, and we took turns napping while on the end of the net. With hardly any tidal movement, we barely drifted at all as John reset the net in the same place several times Complete line of Safety Equipment over the night. Delivering the catch: Taking turns, we each got about two LIFERAFTS: hours sleep, and at the end of the opening we ran into Port Alberni, GUARDIAN, DBC, RFD, stopping to deliver to the Pacific Baron. While his crew unloaded Givens, Revere, Zodiak the boat, Lee was his usual chatty self, reminding me this time of the various positive attributes of several of the girls in our high school. OFFSHORE By 10 a.m., we were tied up in Port Alberni and after some 䴀愀爀椀渀攀 匀愀昀攀琀礀 last-minute maintenance when John had to replace the bilge pump FLARE KITS 匀礀猀琀攀洀猀 SALES switch, we were on our way home, making the 3:15 ferry from Duke SERVICE Point to Tsawwassen and arriving back in Ladner at John’s home at the dike at 5:40 that afternoon. LIFE JACKETS We found out later that the gillnet average for the opening was IMMERSION SUITS about 580 fish. ROCKETS & FLARES At the next assessment meeting July 9, Fisheries and Oceans Canada downsized the run to 1.3 million fish, stating that the LIFERAFTS, LIFE RINGS & LIGHTS gillnet share of the total allowable catch at this run size was FLOTATION EQUIPMENT & CLOTHING 213,537 fish. With the catch at approximately 244,093, there were no more fisheries planned for the next week. U.S. Coast Guard & Solas Approved Service Facility The overall catch estimate to July 9 was 722,000 fish, with gillnetters taking 244,093, seiners 222,240, and Somass First Nations TWO LOCATIONS – SAME GREAT SERVICE 159,769. 4255 23rd Ave. W, Seattle, WA 98199     PH: Seattle (206) 782-3302 • Dutch (907) 981-2030 Fraser outlook: With the Fraser River sockeye run possibly in Continued on page 46

34 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM MID-COAST REPORT by KATIE WILSON Domoic acid derails Washington Dungeness fishery Crab closure expanded: Domoic acid essentially shut down the impossible to “meaningfully compare the eco- Dungeness commercial crab fishery for the season in Washington nomic and social impact of the different sectors after fishery managers on Aug. 4 announced the immediate closure of the halibut fishery to each other, to other of 45 more miles of the state’s coastline to crabbing. fisheries, or to other industries.” A total of 90 miles of Washington’s coast are now closed to crab-     bing – more than half the state’s 157-mile coast – including crabbing Drought impacts: An extremely dry and unusually hot areas inside the Columbia River, Willapa Bay, and Grays Harbor. The summer across Oregon and Washington has not been good for closure stretches from the Columbia River to the Queets River. salmon, especially sockeye. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife had already An estimate from the National Marine Fisheries Service at the end closed an unprecedented 45 miles of coast in June (from the of July said that, primarily due to high water temperatures, sock- Columbia River to Point Chehalis) to Dungeness fisheries after crab eye mortality in the upper Columbia River Basin is close to 80 or 90 samples came back showing high levels of a naturally occurring but percent of a summer run that numbered nearly half a million fish. harmful marine toxin called domoic acid. In mid-July, state fishery managers closed or restricted fishing on The toxin had already shut down commercial and recreational more than 30 rivers across Washington to reduce stress and impacts razor clam digs in May when clam samples came back well over on fish dealing with drought conditions, low flow, and higher water allowed state Department of Health thresholds. Since razor clams temperatures. Elsewhere in Washington, close to 1.5 million young are an important part of crabs’ diet, fishery managers started testing salmon in hatcheries have died due to drought conditions. Warm crab to see if they were also experiencing higher levels of the toxin in water and low flow increase the chance of disease. their systems. They were. “This is unlike anything we’ve seen for some time,” said Ron A round of tests in the first week of August showed the crabs still Warren, WDFW’s salmon policy lead, in a statement in July. had elevated levels of domoic acid. 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WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 41 PACIFIC FISHING classifieds BOX score Boats/Permits/IFQs Alaska Entry Permit Prices (as of 9-1-15) State Species Fishery Asking Price* Offer* Value* SALMON S SE DRIFT 90- 85- 93.3 S PWS DRIFT 220 210 220.5 S COOK INLET DRIFT 60- 58- 67.3 S AREA M DRIFT 138 100 119.5 S BRISTOL BAY DRIFT 150 130 150.5 S SE SEINE 275 250 278.8 S PWS SEINE 170 150- 176.8 S COOK INLET SEINE 75 50 86 S KODIAK SEINE 40 38 39.8 S CHIGNIK SEINE 205 180 227.5 S AREA M SEINE 55 50 56.9 S YAKUTAT SET 16 12 18.9 S COOK INLET SET 15 13 15.5 S AREA M SET NET 65 55 55.6 S BRISTOL SET NET 38 35 38.6 S LOWER YUKON 9.5 9 9.9 S POWER TROLL 42+ 40 40.3 S HAND TROLL 12 11 11.4 HERRING H SE GILLNET 12 10 13.4 H KODIAK GILLNET 5 5 5 H SITKA SEINE 300 250 243.3 H PWS SEINE 25 20 30.9 H COOK INLET SEINE 11 8- 16.8 H KODIAK SEINE 26 20 30.3 H SE POUND SOUTH 35 30 35.6 Northwest FCS Customers Jake, Paul and Ben Clampitt H SE POUND NORTH 38 25 43.1 H PWS POUND 6 5 3.5 SHELLFISH We’re a trusted financial cooperative. As a S SE DUNGY 75 POT 18 17 15.4 S SE DUNGY 150 POT 35 32 33.3 customer-owner, you have a voice and vote S SE DUNGY 225 POT 50 47 50 S SE DUNGY 300 POT 65 60 49.8 in how we do business. Plus, when we do S SE POT SHRIMP 22 20 22 well we share profits with you in the form of S KODIAK TANNER <60 24 22 29.7 S PUGET SOUND DUNGY 150 145+ N/A patronage. No bank does this. S WASHINGTON DUNGY 1,500-3,500/FT 1,500-3,000/FT N/A S OREGON DUNGY 1,500-3,500/FT 1,250-3,000/FT N/A S CALIFORNIA DUNGY 200-600/POT 200-600/POT N/A Visit northwestfcs.com/fisheries SE ALASKA DIVE SE AK Dive URCHIN 4 3 2.4 or call 206.691.2000 SE AK Dive CUCUMBER 25+ 23+ 25.3 SE AK Dive GEODUCK 70 65 82.6 Prices in SEPTEMBER vary in accordance with market conditions. *In thousands Vessels + denotes an increase from last month. N/A denotes No Activity. – denotes a decrease from last month.

Quotas By Mike Painter and the Permit Master Operating lines of credit Gillnet: So far no post season Bay permits have hit the market, nor are there any new offers. A mid-season listing of a SE permit came in at $90k, down about $5k from preseason. PWS permits are still quiet, with no activity since fishing started. Not much activity in Cook Inlet permits during the season, except a recent listing at $60k. Nothing new in Area M permits. Seine: Nothing new in SE permits since fishing started. Permits are available start- ing at $275k. Offers for PWS permits started coming in mid-season at $150k. No new activity in Cook Inlet permits. Kodiak permits are available, starting at $40k. Area M permits are in the mid $50s. Troll: New listings of Alaska Power Troll permits started coming on the market in the low $40s. Hand Troll permits are available starting at $12k. Recent sale of Washington troll were in the high $20s. Oregon permits were around the mid This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer. $20s. California cards were going to $15k - $20k.

42 £ PACIFICFISHING £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM PACIFIC FISHING classifieds Boats/Permits/IFQs Halibut & Sablefish IFQ Prices Recent market activity in halibut and sablefish quota shares Status Regulatory Vessel Poundage Ask Offer (blocked/ (per pound) (per pound) Species Area Category* (thousands) unblocked) Low High Low High

H 2C D 1-10 B 48.00-52.00 46.00-50.00 H 2C C/B 1-3 B 50.00-52.00 48.00-50.00 H 2C C/B 4-10 B 50.00-52.00 48.00-50.00 H 2C C/B ANY U 52.00 52.00 H 2C A B/U 54.00 52.00 H 3A D B/U 40.00-47.00 40.00-45.00 H 3A C/B 1-5 B 44.00-48.00 44.00-46.00 H 3A C/B 5-10 B 48.00-50.00 46.00-48.00 H 3A C/B >10 U 50.00-52.00 49.00-50.00 H 3A A B/U 52.00 52.00 H 3B D B 26.00-30.00 24.00-38.00 H 3B C/B 1-10 B 32.00-38.00 28.00-32.00 H 3B C/B >10 U 37.00-40.00 30.00-32.00 H 3B A B/U N/A 36.00 H 4A D B/U 20.00-24.00 18.00-20.00 H 4A C/B 1-10 B 22.00-26.00 20.00-24.00 H 4A C/B >10 B 26.00-30.00 24.00-26.00 Choose HOMER for your boat work H 4A C/B >10 U 30.00 26.00-28.00 H 4B/C/D C/B 1-10 B 10.00-16.00 10.00-12.00 H 4B/C/D C/B >10 B/U 16.00-20.00 12.00-16.00 S SE C/B 1-10 B 24.00-28.00 21.00-24.00 S SE C/B >10 U 28.00-30.00 25.00-27.00 S SE A B/U 32.00 30.00 S WY C/B 1-10 B 23.00-28.00 20.00-24.00 www.homermarinetrades.com S WY C/B >10 U 28.00-30.00 25.00-27.00 S WY A B/U 30.00 30.00 S CG C/B 1-10 B 20.00-25.00 18.00-20.00 S CG C/B >10 U 24.00-26.00 22.00-24.00 S CG A B/U 30.00 25.00 S WG C/B 1-10 B 11.00-14.00 10.00-12.00 S WG C/B >10 B 13.00-14.00 10.00-12.00 S WG C/B/A >10 U 14.00-16.00 12.00-14.00 S AI C/B/A B/U 1.50-4.00 1.00-3.00 S BS C/B B/U 1.50-5.00 1.00-4.00 S BS A B/U 5.00-7.00 5.00

*Vessel Categories: A = freezer boats B = over 60’ C = 35’-60’ D = < 35’ NOTE: Halibut prices reflect net weight, sablefish round weight. Pricing for leased shares is expressed as a percentage of gross proceeds. ** Too few to characterize.

By Mike Painter and the Permit Master

TANZA One of the last unmolested examples of a true B.C. classic, built in 1951 at Harbour Boat Builders in Vancouver B.C. No costs have been spared in mainte- Halibut quota share prices remain very strong, with 2C and 3A leading the nance or repairs and she is maintained way. Both those areas are at or near $50/lb. Buyers are looking for any 2C. 3A is to a very high standard. It is currently moving steady, with listings starting to dry up. There is a little 3B and 4A available. powered by a 6L3B Gardner main, with Unfished quota will be getting harder to find. Fished quota listings are starting a V3300 Kabota auxillary, and has just to build. completed a CSI home trade II inspec- Sablefish prices have levelled off on what quota is available. Demand for SE is tion. This vessel has never been offered still strong, but there is virtually none available. There is very little WY available. on the open market. Interest in CG is still up, but offers aren’t increasing. There is plenty of WG available, but only limited interest. Still not much interest in AI or BS. Price: $450,000 CAD for stand alone L tab with 1,000 pounds of halibut quota, or $300,000 CAD for vessel alone. For further inquery go to www.sointulapowerproducts.com, or call Richie at (250) 949-0922.

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F/V WESTERN FREEDOM We want to harvest your sablefish IFQ. Family FOR SALE - ALASKA LEGACY owned, experienced captain and crew. MARCO FOR SALE FOR SALE 1990 - 50 Little Hoquiam seiner, currently located AutoBaiter, lots of media, sauna, good food. Commercial squid light boat with permit. Priced Lightboat for sale with permit boat is also a in Cordova, Ak. Twin Lugger 460 engines, approx Guaranteed quality harvest experience. Contact below market value. $429,000. Call Donny solid fiberglass Coast Guard certified charter 11k hrs. 35kw Isuzu gen. 60k cap. in main hold/ Garrett Elwood. Cell: (425) 345-8301. Home: (949) 279-9369. boat priced to sell quickly $675,000 dollars call Sunday hold. Complete list of amenities and copy (425) 259-2731. Don (949) 279-9369. of survey at www.alaskalegacy.org. $750,000 CRAB PERMITS AVAILABLE obo. (907) 748-5578 or (907) 748-5579. Oregon and Washington crab permits avail- able. 500 pot Oregon and 300 or 500 pot Washington up to 66 feet. (541) 270-6676. FOR SALE Have two California light-market Brail Boat licenses for sale. Call Don. (949) 279-9369. Prices reduced to $250,000 U.S. dollars. FOR SALE Have multiple squid light permits priced to sell quickly. $199,000 dollars or make offer. Call Donny (949) 279-9369. FOR SALE FOR SALE - F/V PACIFIC SON California Market Squid Boat. Boat holds 75 WANTED 1993 37' fiberglass Troller. 6 cylinder John Deere ton of RSW squid. Priced to sell quickly. Comes FOR SALE California near-shore permit needed. Right away! engine with Twin Disc reduction gear. Two radars, with market and captain. Great producer every 20m ex Navy tugboat in good condition. Needs Buyer has cash. Please call Don. (949) 279-9369. 4 gps plotters, two depth sounders and Comnav year. Price is 3.1 million including net and engine to be installed. 12 cylinder Mitsubishi FOR SALE auto pilot. Hydraulic anchor puller and 4 spool skiff. Recent survey and recently painted. New on deck. Firm $200,000.00 Canadian. Call 54 ton California market squid purse permit. simplex gurdiies. Current safety equipment. machinery and hydraulics in last few years. Scott Dunn, cell: (250) 218-4312, home: Never been upgraded. Priced to sell quickly. $1.3 $140,000 including OR troll permit. Mike Becker Call Don (949) 279-9369. (250) 338-9098. million. Call Don (949) 279-9369. (541) 574-6985, or Mark Newell (541) 270-4715.

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Rough riders: The gillnetter St. Charliett sits alongside the tender Tempest during heavy weather on July 17 in Bristol Bay. This year’s sockeye fishery started slow but saw a remarkable late surge, with the final catch approaching 36 million fish. Jack Molan, captain aboard the tender Cornelia Marie, took the photo.

looking forward to servicing the custom- own separate license category. LFS acquires ers in Sitka and other Southeast fishing Creating separate licenses should communities, and we’ll also have an improve management of the three Murray Pacific opportunity to supply gear for all of the fisheries, officials said. Supply in Sitka regional fisheries. We have a lot of respect “No new access or changes in alloca- for Murray Pacific’s history and traditions tion will result from this administrative Murray Pacific Supply of Alaska, in in Alaska, and look forward to working change, which is expected to create a Sitka, has become part of the LFS Marine with Linda and her team.” more efficient licensing process for com-  – LFS Supplies family with the completion of a mercial fishers and support sustainable purchase agreement announced Aug. 11. management of the fisheries for these The iconic Sitka store will continue to species,” the government said. operate under its current name and pro- Separate licenses Over the next two years, the Depart- vide the excellent customer service they ment of Fisheries and Oceans will are known for, with its familiar crew and proposed for consult with First Nations and affected longtime manager, Linda Boord, at the stakeholders. helm. B.C. tuna, “The licensing amendment is expect- The acquisition of this well- lingcod, dogfish ed to benefit current license holders, established fishing gear and marine as it will be easier and more efficient supplier adds a year-round Southeast Canadian officials on July 22 announced to apply for or renew a commercial location to the six LFS stores already the government would pursue a regu- fishing license,” the government said. operating in Alaska: LFS/Donalson’s in latory amendment to create separate “All commercial license holders with Anchorage and Kenai, and LFS locations commercial fishing license categories current access to these three species in Dutch Harbor, Cordova, Naknek, in British Columbia for tuna, lingcod, under their existing license conditions and Dillingham. and dogfish. will be eligible to apply for and acquire “We are pleased to gain a strong These fish are currently grouped togeth- the new licenses.” presence in Southeast Alaska,” said er with other species. They are the only The amendment is anticipated to take Shane Russell, LFS president. “We are major fisheries in B.C. that don’t have their effect in two or three years. 

WWW.PACIFICFISHING.COM £ SEPTEMBER 2015 £ PACIFICFISHING £ 45 Schandelmeier commentary continued from page 6 Platypus said. heavily into the escapement of salmon, especially kings. The The new hull received an Awlgrip paint job. initiative has gathered sufficient signatures but needs to stand The sponsoning increased the Freedom’s beam from 15 feet 5 the test of law before it goes to ballot. inches to 20 feet 1 inch – a greater beam than conventional Delta At this time, the proposed setnet ban does not address areas 58-foot seiners, Platypus said. in which the subsistence take of salmon is of paramount impor- “The sponsoning also provides a 300 percent increase in the tance. It could. We all are aware that once laws are on the books, vessel’s initial stability and righting energy, while the wider they can be easily managed by regulation to include other areas beam and hard chines increase the fish hold capacity from 1,000 – without a public review. cubic feet to 1,250 cubic feet, a 25 percent increase,” Platypus Setnetting is way of life in much of coastal Alaska. For the said. “All of this, while being able to utilize the existing 400- most part, setnet folks are local Alaskans and residents of the horsepower main. This type of modification can bring to an older area in which they fish. Losing this local fishery would be a vessel more updated capabilities while avoiding the costly Coast travesty to a lifestyle and a black eye for our state. Guard regulations and inspections on new vessels built after The cost of living rural is becoming increasingly difficult in July 1, 2012.” Alaska. Subsistence living is facing challenges throughout our Another benefit of the sponsoning is a larger working deck.  state. Families are unable to make ends meet and thus move to Fish Factor continued from page 33 the cities. There is also danger in losing the basics of the out- door lifestyle. Kids will know the Internet, but not how to trap, Norway is the world’s largest farmed salmon producer and hunt, or fish. Setnets are not just a part of the rural life – they uses far less antibiotics. The latest figures from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization show that Norway are an avenue to learn the basics of life.  produced 1.3 million tons of salmon and used just over 2,000 John Schandelmeier is a lifelong Alaskan who lives with his family pounds of antibiotics in 2013. near Paxson. He is a Bristol Bay commercial fisherman and two-time Costco is following the lead of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, winner of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. which have phased out Chilean fish in favor of antibiotic-free fish caught in the wild. Target has gone further and eliminated Around the Yards continued from page 27 farmed salmon from its shelves, and Walmart is pressing all Martushev built a shell for in 2013 was finished by the owner this protein suppliers to reduce their use of antibiotics. year for the Southeast Alaska fishery. Luckily, American salmon lovers can know what they are     buying. By law, all fresh or frozen salmon and other seafood on Wrangell: Kelly Ellis at Wrangell Boatshop reported in mid- U.S. grocery shelves must be labeled according to the country July that the yard had just completed caulking, seam work, and of origin and whether it is farmed or wild.  fiberglass work in the fish hold of the 80-foot wooden tender Misty Morn. Laine Welch writes the Fish Factor newspaper column and produces For the balance of the summer, Wrangell Boatshop had only Alaska Fish Radio out of Kodiak. yacht work, with commercial fishing vessel jobs scheduled in September, Ellis reported. British Columbia continued from page 34 The 38-foot troller Laurel Lin was coming in for aluminum trouble due to high temperatures and low water, that Alberni bulkheads and the Petersburg-based fiberglass seiner Rosie M for Inlet fishery looked to be the only south coast sockeye fishery paint work. The large wooden tender Marine Star also was due in this year. the yard in September. The Pacific Salmon Commission said the total Fraser sockeye     forecast (at a 50 percent probability level) was 6.78 million fish. At Port Angeles: Platypus Marine Inc. has provided more details that level some modest fisheries were possible, but trouble was about a sponsoning job it completed on the F/V Freedom, a looming due to the weather. salmon seiner and contract tender out of Petersburg, Alaska, In a July 10 press release, the commission’s Fraser River Panel mentioned in the July issue of Pacific Fishing. warned that a warm spring and near-average April snowpack Delta Marine built the boat in 1980 as a 48-footer. She volume resulted in higher than average Fraser River flows from subsequently was lengthened to 53 feet. January to May and extremely low June snowpack volume The Freedom went into the Platypus yard for major upgrades throughout the province. including the sponsoning, a complete rebuild of her Caterpillar “Consequently, Fraser River discharge levels are forecast to be 3406 main engine and gear box, an electrical overhaul, a new at or below historic minimum levels during the sockeye migra- 18-ton refrigerated raw seawater system, refreshed crew quarters tion period,” the release said. “Fraser River water temperatures and pilot house interiors, and a new navigation electronics suite. have been near historic maximums throughout June and into Naval architect Jonathan Moore, with Tim Nolan Marine early July. If these extremes in flow and temperature conditions Design in Port Townsend, did the design and engineering for the continue, they will likely result in difficult migration conditions sponsoning project. for sockeye en route to their spawning streams.” Moore used 3-D computer models to “determine how to locate On British Columbia’s north coast, a massive algae bloom was the new sponsons on the existing vessel, with the goal of blending clogging gillnets in the approaches to the Nass River in Area 3, in the new components, while maintaining fair lines and hiding making fishing pointless. the fact that the vessel has been sponsoned.” With only 300,000 sockeye counted going into the Skeena River, The boat’s round chine configuration was converted to a hard it had not yet been opened for commercial fishing as of July 21.  chine design. “This new design provided the largest increase in hold capacity Michel Drouin has been covering the British Columbia fishing industry and roll dampening, with the greatest improvement in stability,” since 1990.

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